Jun 24, 2008

The inessentialness of copy editors

Everyone who knows anything about the Internet, or online journalism, or accounting, knows that copy editors are an expensive luxury. Old news in a new news world. Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post proves the point in his column this week:

The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading. No longer can we say that the editor's penis mightier than the sword. The sword's main foe is a computer now, and the computer is up to to the task.